I crapped on Minecraft for two years without ever playing it, and then I finally broke down and started about three weeks ago. I played for 10 hours straight during my first session. There's something strangely addictive about it. Before I learned how to build a bed, I got lost easily, so I built a 3 mile high lit tower I could see from anywhere on the map to find my way back home at night to the spawn point.

I also spent three hours steadily filling in a hole at the bottom of a cave so I could make my superman fortress. Then I decided I wanted to run a creek through it, which took another three hours. Then I wanted the top half of the cave to be made entirely of glass, and I'm about 14 hours into that an only halfway finished.